A Collection of Familiar Quotations, with Complete Indices of Authors and Subjects

by John Bartlett

$950 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First edition. vii, viii, errata , 295 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original brown publisher's cloth, spine titled in gilt. Two scuffs to spine, front flyleaf excised; faint traces of damp to fore edge of a few leaves. Very good. Morocco backed folding box. Grolier Hundred 64. Item #376264 Attractive copy of the first edition of this cornerstone of shared cultural references, which went through nine editions in the

• Binding: Leather

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